At least two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020 and their wrongdoing includes patterns of physical and sexual abuse, ...
DETROIT (AP) — “I was strung out on Bach, and Beethoven was my thing. I dug jazz, I dug rock, anything with a swing” — or so goes Funkadelic’s 1978 groove “Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll!).” Now ...
Lisa Davidsen has been starring as Isolde in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde.” At the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — In his book on reinventing opera, director Yuval Sharon describes “Tristan und Isolde” as “the single hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage.” Yet here he is, about to ...
NEW YORK (AP) — In a dispute of operatic proportions, the production team of Bizet’s “Carmen” at the Metropolitan Opera ordered their names stripped from programs over a restaging decision, and the ...
LONDON (AP) — Dozens of Ukrainians and their supporters have demonstrated outside the Royal Opera House in London to protest a performance by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. Protesters outside Thursday ...
Opera-Staging Tristan This image released by the Metropolitan Opera shows Soprano Lise Davidsen and tenor Michael Spyres as the title characters in a Feb. 27, 2026, rehearsal of a new production of ...